TALK #2 is launched!You are cordially invited to join me now on the Rose Apple Mind Channel for Talk #2 " Managing the Hindrances".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lANmBtkSinYThis first group of talks were recorded in Sri Lanka in 2012. Will appear before the new talks come in. I want to thank Ven. Mettavihari for helping me to get started with these short videos. And I thank Ven. Kusula for helping me to make this connection. You have to start somewhere, eh?Talk #2 covers wholesome and unwholesome mind-states and managing Hindrances by following the Buddha's advice. If we will abandon our attention from them, let them go, relax, smile, and come back to gently stay with your object of meditation, then our entire practice will get clearer. If we leave those steps out, progress will not be the same. I encourage you to test this in your own practice.This talk advises us how to stay firmly with our object of meditation and not be disturbed by anything that arises. The Buddha taught his son Rahula to remember something found in MN-62, Maharaulovada Sutta that will remind us not to be distracted to leave your internal observation.There is also a description of Equanimity arising during a life threatening situation driving a truck. It can be a surprisingly strange experience. Please join me.